If you think Albany has no choice but to throw jaws at taxpayer dollars next year, as Gov. Hochul claims, some of the things she plans to spend the money on. Let's take a look.
Start with her statewide school cell phone ban: Hochul is proposing $13.5 million to cover the cost of special digital pouches, lockers and additional staff to collect phones each day.
Meanwhile, for more than a decade, enterprising educators around the United States have been using outdoor shoe hangers as classroom smartphone drops as a simple and affordable solution.
(Amazon sells 30-pocket shoe holders for $15 to $17.
Remember last year when the New York Reparations Commission's hochul was OK?
Well, she's giving the nine-member panel a one-year extension, plus Another $5 million to continue possible payments to Black New Yorkers for slavery and other historical injustices.
And if the panel isn't just for show, New Yorkers billions Payment costs.
Next: Mothers on public assistance pocket $1,200 in extra cash for each newborn. Expanded public assistance payments Pregnancy – Monthly cash instead of each pregnancy period, similar to current policy.
Waste includes expanding handouts to rich entertainment industry moguls via the National Film Credit (scheduled to expire in 2034), burning $700 million a year, and adding another $200 million to local pools. This includes grants for renovations.
The budget's fine print cites millions more in similar waste.
That's really mind bending :a quarter dollar Pork-filled spending plans and payments to Hochul's friends and allies – all your Taxes – The government's idea of an “affordable” agenda, imagine what her “affordable” agenda would look like.
